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I am not belittling people, I am pointing out an objective issue in an ostensibly scientific discipline. If what I said is untrue, show me how.
A basic requirement for being a serious engineer is the ability to tell the difference between emotional communication and technical communication, and to compartmentalize them.
There we go with the dig. I feel many people, including me, could learn a lot more from incredibly clever and accomplished programmers like yourself if the tone were just a little friendlier. I believe tech discourse too often becomes aggressive.
It's not a dig. If you insist on interpreting things that way, that's on you. Sorry.
A basic requirement for being a successful communicator of ideas is to pay any attention at all to human psychology. A wholly rational being of pure logic can compartmentalize, humans cannot. 1/
Some humans do better at this than others, but it's a matter of degree. Because of this, it can be useful to modulate the tone of your message, at least to some degree, to avoid causing unnecessary disagreement. 2/
If your message is not understood because the reader did not hear it with a neutral tone, that is on you, the communicator. It's not binary, there's degrees to it. But if you're not going to make any effort at all to sugar-coat your message, it should not be surprising 3/
that people fail to hear the content of your message. By analogy, if I miscommunicate badly enough that I've said factually incorrect things, no amount of "well what I meant was-" absolves me of my responsibility to be accurate. Emotional content is no different. 4/4
If you adopt this policy when you have 100,000 Twitter followers, you will never be allowed to say anything because everything is wrong.
I feel bad now about starting this thread. I see your point that having so many followers makes satisfying everyone impossible. Please accept my apologies.
"99.9% have next to no idea" uhhh you're gonna tell me that's "technical communication"? citation please? yeah you have none. you're pulling this shit out your ass.
I think the valid point here is that programmers put too much stake into 'performant' code in contexts where it doesn't matter. Successful programming is an alignment of skill and context
I’m not sure that’s what JB is saying heh! Possibly the opposite?? Like we don’t care enough about perf? (I actually kind of agree, just not with his sassy attitude)
Perhaps!
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